domenica 19 giugno 2016

4.13 Against the Black Death: good health and new hope - Part XXXIV - Excerpt from the essay «Acceleration, Revolution and Money in Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus», Obsolete Capitalism Free Press/Rizosphere, 2016


Against the Black Death: good health and new hope

All we have written is the result of a research project that involved three main cores, heterogeneous but still tied and unified by a subversive thinking. The first core is represented by the posthumous fragments on the will to power, where the heart of this research lies, The Strong of the Future, that is, the Nietzsche that wrote in 1887-1888; the second core can be identified in the essay on conspiracy and the community of singularities generated by the Eternal Return, that is, the Klossowski of Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle (1969); the third core is constituted by the present accelerationist passage in The Civilised Capitalist Machine where the nomad pluralities appear, that is, the Anti-Œdipus of Deleuze and Guattari (1972). Three cores for three books of the Adversary – a lawless, anarchic and antichrist Adversary – whose task is “is not to be found in the neurotic or perverse re-territorializations that arrest the process or assign it goals; it is no more behind than ahead, it coincides with the completion of the process of desiring-production, this process that is always and already complete as it proceeds, and as long as it proceeds” (AE, 382). If, for what concerns industrial capital or digital post-capitalism, “we really haven’t seen anything yet” because with its de-territorializations “it may dispatch us straight to the moon” (AE, 34) and conquer new planets or galaxies with its Black Deaths, according to Deleuze and Guattari the non-identitary nomad “will never go too far with the deterritorialization, the decoding of flows” (AE, 382). Zarathustra, in one of its most visionary speeches, The Bestowing Virtue, prophesizes: “Truly, a place of healing shall the earth become! And already is a new odor diffused around it, a salvation-bringing odor - and a new hope!” (Z, 65). thus, the masterpiece written by Deleuze and Guattari – which, as we have demonstrated, is not only an authorial work but a rhizomatic gem – finishes with a morning song to accelerate the momentum of the Eternal Return: “For the new earth is not to be found in the neurotic or perverse re-territorializations that arrest the process or assign it goals; it is no more behind than ahead, it coincides with the completion of the process of desiring-production, this process that is always and already complete as it proceeds, and as long as it proceeds” (AE, 382). The appearance of those who walk through the revolutionary avenue changes, being them the strong of the future, or the non-homogeneous singularities, or the nomad pluralities, but the imperative of the microcomunism of the unequal remains the same: Accelerate and Destroy. The inhuman Kingdom is already among us.


December 2015

(The End)

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